What Shade of Green is the Swedish Forest Bioeconomy Transition?

Measuring Directionality Through Innovation

Jonas Kreutzer

September 18, 2023

“We have never had a summer like this!” – German Tabloid Bild (Amenda, 2022)

Sustainability Transitions

The nine planetary boundaries shown as a radial graph. Five are overshooting the safe operating space.

(Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre,
based on analysis in Wang-Erlandsson et al. (2022))

Bioeconomy

Three Visions for a Bioeconomy

Bugge et al. (2016); Holmgren et al. (2022); Fischer et al. (2020)

How to Measure Directionality?

Innovation Systems

Output

Shades of Green Innovation

Which bioeconomy visions?

Trends?

Innovation

SINNO ID	Description in Swedish	Year	Innovating Firm
7607001	Metod för skogsrensning som eliminerar riskerna med rotvältor och träd som fastnat i spänt läge. Metoden innebär att rotstocken kapas med hjälp av en lämpligt placerad sprängladdning.	1970	Nitro Nobel AB
7611001	Pneumatisk oljebarriär för att hindra olja från att sprida sig på vattnet. Vid katastroftillfällen kopplas ett tryckluftsaggregat till slangarna och oljebarriären sätts i funktionen.	1970	Atlas Copco AB

Effects

Innovation System

Development Blocks?

Spill Overs?

Ecological

Innovation Contribution to Fossil Substitution?

Most savings?

Cheapest?

Structure

Firm Collaboration Networks

Predicting Eco-Innovation From Collaboration

Possible Collaboration Ties for Three Firms

Predicting Eco-Innovation From Collaboration

Behavior

A hierarchical and a fully connected network

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References

Amenda, P. (2022, August 30). Meteorologen ziehen Wetterbilanz: So einen Sommer hatten wir noch nie! bild.de. https://www.bild.de/news/wetter/wetter/meteorologen-ziehen-wetterbilanz-so-einen-sommer-hatten-wir-noch-nie-81159694.bild.html

Bugge, M. M., Hansen, T., & Klitkou, A. (2016). What Is the Bioeconomy? A Review of the Literature. Sustainability, 8(7), 691. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8070691

Fischer, K., Stenius, T., & Holmgren, S. (2020). Swedish Forests in the Bioeconomy: Stories from the National Forest Program. SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES, 33(7), 896–913. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2020.1725202

Holmgren, S., Giurca, A., Johansson, J., Kanarp, C. S., Stenius, T., & Fischer, K. (2022). Whose transformation is this? Unpacking the “apparatus of capture” in Sweden’s bioeconomy. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 42, 44–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.11.005

Wang-Erlandsson, L., Tobian, A., van der Ent, R. J., Fetzer, I., te Wierik, S., Porkka, M., Staal, A., Jaramillo, F., Dahlmann, H., Singh, C., Greve, P., Gerten, D., Keys, P. W., Gleeson, T., Cornell, S. E., Steffen, W., Bai, X., & Rockström, J. (2022). A planetary boundary for green water. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3(6, 6), 380–392. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00287-8